30-DAY JOB BOARD ROI SPRINT

Defend your hiring dollars with data, not guesswork.

In 30 days, you'll know your average cost-per-hire by source, where to kill spend that isn't working, and which hiring channels are worth doubling down on. Walk into every leadership meeting with numbers your CFO will actually trust.

30 minutes · Free · No pitch deck

  • 30-day money-back
  • Keep all deliverables
  • Honest fit assessment
ROI Performance Report
Preview
Cost / hire
$4,212
Candidates
1,847
ROI on Ads
7.2× more candidates
Cost-per-hire by sourceUSD
ZipRecruiter
Indeed
LinkedIn
Career Site
Healthcare
Cut · ZipRecruiterKeep · Indeed2× · Healthcare Board

Sample preview. Your comprehensive custom report is designed based on your data and the top 3 KPIs you want to track.

$0M+
in job board advertising analyzed for HR & TA teams

We work with the ATS and job boards your team already uses

Best operational decision we made this year. Full stop. Wish we'd done it a year ago.
Vice President of TAHealthcare Provider, 600+ employees
Sound familiar?

If any of this is your week, you're not alone.

Most of the recruiting budget is going to job boards nobody can rank. Your ATS, job platforms, and spreadsheets hold the numbers. None of them talk to each other. And the QBR is in three weeks.

Symptom 01

You can't pull cost-per-hire on demand.

$3K, $10K, or $30K+ a month is moving across Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, niche boards, and your career site. If your CFO asked tomorrow which channel earned its keep based on actual data, you'd be guessing.

Symptom 02

Budget is leaking. You can't see where.

Reqs sit for 60 days quietly burning ad spend. Sources that look busy and produce almost no hires. You'd kill half of it today if you could see it on one page.

Symptom 03

Leadership asks. You improvise.

Finance wants to know what the job boards actually return. You piece together ad-hoc reports. Next quarter's budget gets defended on gut feel because the real numbers live in three systems that don't talk.

The numbers

What flying blind is actually costing you.

77%

of TA teams can't connect recruitment spend to actual hires

Only 23% of talent acquisition organizations can tie their ad dollars to hiring outcomes. If your CFO asked tomorrow which job board earned its keep this quarter, you'd probably be in the 77% answering with 'we think.' Finance is usually not happy with hearing answers that start with 'we think.'

Source: Aptitude Research, Talent Acquisition Analytics Study


of hires come from sponsored job ads. Despite eating most of your budget.

Sponsored job ads generate 23% of applicants but just 9% of actual hires, the lowest conversion rate of any source. Careers-page applicants are 4x more likely to be hired than job board applicants. Referrals 10x. Niche sources 14x. Most recruiting budgets are stacked on the weakest channel.

Source: CareerPlug, 2025 Recruiting Metrics Report (10M+ applications analyzed)

9%

$0
and rising

average cost-per-hire. Rising sharply, even as hiring demand softened in 2025.

The average cost-per-hire is $5,475 for non-exec roles and $35,879 for executives. Both climbed in 2025 despite a cooler labor market, driven by job board pricing shifts. Every dollar in a weak job board is worth more this year than last. And you can't cut what you can't see.

Source: SHRM Talent Access Report

The choice

Two ways to defend your recruitment budget.

One ends every leadership meeting with 'we think.' The other ends it with real data.

Today
Without an ROI Sprint
RECOMMENDED
30 days from now
With the 30-Day ROI Sprint
Cost-per-hire by source is a guess
Cost-per-hire by source on one page
Days spent every month pulling reports across systems
Report generated automatically every month
Leadership meetings defended on gut feel
Leadership meetings defended with real data
Ad spend stuck on weak channels you can't see
"Cut", "keep", and "double-down" recommendations every month
Spend decisions live in someone's head
Spend decisions documented in an exec slide deck
Next quarter's budget defended on last quarter's guesses
Budget defended on last quarter's actual data
ATS, job boards, and finance speak different languages
One reporting layer that all three trust

Pick the side you want to be on. Book my FREE ROI Audit.

The offer

Job Board ROI Sprint

A 30-day sprint that turns your ATS and job board data into a leadership-ready ROI Performance Report. Then keeps it updated every month after.

ROI ReportExec Slide DeckReporting EngineMonthly Updates
What you get on day 30

A leadership-ready ROI Performance Report.

PDF Report · Editable Exec deck
What's My ROI
January ROI Performance Report
Northwind Talent Group
January 2026
Avg cost-per-hire
23%
$4,212
Total candidates
12%
1,847
Return on ad spend
0.9×
7.2× more candidates

Cost-per-hire by source

USD
ZipRecruiter
$6,800
Indeed
$4,900
LinkedIn
$5,100
Career Site
$1,200
HealthcareJobs.com
$1,850

Spend distribution

$32Kper month
Recommendation

Pull spend from ZipRecruiter Boosted Jobs.

Save $11K/mo
CUT
ZipRecruiter Job Boost
Highest cost-per-hire, lowest conversion
KEEP
Indeed
Mid-pack ROI, steady pipeline
DOUBLE-DOWN
HealthcareJobs.com
Lowest cost-per-hire, highest fit rate

Sample only. Your comprehensive custom report is designed based on your data and the top 3 KPIs you want to track.

Want a report like this for your team?

30 minutes · Free · No pitch deck

What you get

Four deliverables. One sprint.

ROI Performance Report (PDF)

Custom-built around your top 3 KPIs, like average cost-per-hire, total candidate volume, and return on ad spend. Best and worst performing roles and sources, with clear actionable recommendations.

Replaces ≈ 1 to 2 weeks of senior analyst time

Exec Slide Deck (editable)

ROI and performance slides you can drop straight into your next leadership meeting. No reformatting, no rework. Defensible numbers, already formatted for the audience that matters.

Replaces ≈ 2 to 3 days of design + content work

Custom reporting engine

We connect your job boards and ATS and build the engine that feeds your ROI Performance Report every month. You stop chasing data across systems.

Replaces ≈ 4 weeks of Business Intelligence engineering

Ongoing maintenance options

After the sprint, pick a monthly cadence that fits: Report Only or Report + Live 45 Minute Performance Review call.

Replaces ≈ Recurring analyst hours, every month

What this would cost in-house

The cost of building this yourself.

Or the cost of one more quarter spent guessing what you're actually getting for your money.

ITEMIZED ESTIMATE
The cost of building this in-house
  • In-house TA analyst, dedicated for 30 days≈ 1 month of salary
  • Analytics tool license$300 to $1,500 / month, ongoing
  • Designer to build a leadership-ready PDF≈ 2 to 3 days of design work
  • Senior data analyst to validate every number≈ 1 to 2 weeks of senior time
  • Project Manager to coordinate your ATS, job boards, and spreadsheetsSpread across 30 days
  • Cost of one more quarter on weak job boards~$3K to $30K+ per month, until fixed
Estimated total$40K to $65K+

Per quarter, recurring

Smarter option

Or, one 30-Day Done-For-You ROI Sprint with a flat implementation fee and a money-back guarantee.

Book my FREE ROI Audit

30 minutes · Free · No obligation

The 30-day plan

Thirty days, in four moves.

One implementation sprint, delivered in four focused weeks. No mystery. No open-ended promises. Little to no disruption to your current hiring.

FREE · STARTS HERE

Phase 0: ROI Audit Call

  • 30-minute call
  • Confirm we can pull reliable data from your ATS and boards
  • If your data isn't ready, you walk away with a checklist. No charge
01Week 1

Data & Design

  • Connect to your job boards and ATS
  • Define your top 3 KPIs
  • Design your custom ROI Performance Report
  • Deliverable: signed-off report design and KPI definitions
02Weeks 2-3

Build & Validate

  • Build the reporting engine that feeds your report
  • Pull historical data on up to 4 major sources
  • QA with your team so every number passes the sniff test
  • Deliverable: validated reporting engine running on live data
03Week 4

Leadership-Ready Report

  • ROI Performance Report (PDF) with best and worst sources
  • "Cut", "keep", and "double-down" recommendations
  • Exec Slide Deck (editable) ready for your next meeting
Day 30

Checkpoint & Guarantee

  • Leadership-ready PDF report covering your top 3 KPIs
  • Editable Executive Slide Deck for your next meeting
  • Best and worst sources clearly identified
  • "Cut", "keep", and "double-down" recommendations
  • If we miss these deliverables, we refund the implementation fee. No questions asked.
ONGOING

Month 2+: Monthly ROI Reporting

  • Tier 1: Monthly updated PDF + email recommendations
  • Tier 2: Tier 1 plus a 45-minute Performance Review call
My CFO pulled me aside and asked what changed with our recruiting. For the first time, I can tell exactly which board is earning its keep and which ones aren't. We cut the spend that wasn't working, doubled down on what was, and my board deck this quarter basically wrote itself.
VP, Talent Acquisition
Home Improvement, 2,000+ employees
The board signed off on the full recruiting budget for next year. The ROI report your team built was what got it across the line. This is the first time finance and HR have agreed on a hiring spend plan in two years.
Director of People
B2B SaaS, 450+ employees
Who this is for

Built for TA leaders who have to defend every dollar.

This is for you if

This is for you if...

  • You're a VP, Director, or Manager of HR or TA
  • You spend $3,000 or more a month on Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, or niche boards
  • You can't pull a clean cost-per-hire by source on demand
  • You have to defend your recruiting budget to Finance or the Executive Team
  • You want the data to make "cut", "keep", and "double-down" decisions with confidence
Honest disqualifier

This probably isn't a fit if...

  • You don't run paid job board advertising
  • Your ATS doesn't track source or hire data at all
  • You want a staffing agency to source candidates for you
  • You're looking for someone to run your boards day to day. We report, we don't repost.
FREE · 30 MIN · NO PITCH

Stop guessing. Start monitoring and defending every dollar.

30 minutes is all it takes to start learning what you're actually getting from your job boards. No pitch deck. No obligation.

  • 30-day money-back
  • Keep all deliverables
  • Honest fit assessment
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Our guarantee

30-Day Budget Clarity & Confidence Guarantee.

By day 30 you have a leadership-ready ROI Performance Report covering your top 3 KPIs, clear "cut", "keep", and "double-down" recommendations, and an exec slide deck you can plug into your next meeting. If we miss these deliverables, we refund the implementation fee in full.

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Signed, the What's My ROI team

What clients are saying

Our Wall of Love.

My CFO pulled me aside and asked what changed with our recruiting. For the first time, I can tell you exactly which job board is earning its keep and which ones aren't. We cut the spend that wasn't working, doubled down on what was, and my board deck this quarter basically wrote itself.
Running Month 1 numbers before our QBR tomorrow. We dropped roughly $8K/month from job boards that were pulling applications but basically no hires. Moved the spend to a couple we'd been ignoring. Cost per hire actually makes sense now when someone asks.
Best operational decision we made this year. Full stop. Wish we'd done it a year ago.
Last quarter my VP was guessing which boards were worth the money. This quarter she has a PDF that answers it. We pulled our Indeed spend by 40% and doubled up on the niche board nobody was watching. Two of my offers this month came from it.
The board signed off on the full recruiting budget for next year. The ROI report your team built was what got it across the line. This is the first time finance and HR have agreed on a hiring spend plan in two years.
Used to defend our recruitment spend to the board on gut feel because nobody owned the numbers. Now I don't. That's the whole email.
I inherited this reporting nightmare three years ago and gave up on fixing it twice. You sorted it in four weeks. The cost-per-hire question my boss has been asking since I started has an answer now. Simple as that.
Dropping some of this into my deck this week. We stopped about $11K/month in spend that wasn't turning into hires. Cost per hire by source is in the slide now. Recruiting budget cleared through Q3.
I'm a hiring manager, not in HR. My recruiting partner apparently pulled our Indeed spend and doubled down on boards that were actually working. The quality of candidates showing up has jumped. Whatever you did, keep doing it.

How much does a Job Board ROI Sprint cost?

We share specific pricing on the call after we confirm we can build a defensible custom report on your data. Sprints are a flat implementation fee, scoped to your data complexity, and come with the 30-day money-back guarantee. Most teams find the sprint costs less than what they're already burning on weak job boards and tools in a single quarter.

Do we need to switch ATS or job boards?

No. You keep your tools. Our job is to pull the data out of what you already have and turn it into a report leadership can act on.

Which ATS platforms do you support?

All the major ones used by TA teams. On the free ROI Audit call we confirm your specific setup and make sure we can get reliable data before you invest a dollar.

What if our data isn't clean enough?

That's exactly what the free ROI Audit is for. If your ATS or job boards aren't tracking enough to build a reliable report, we tell you upfront and hand you a simple checklist of things to do if you want to work together. No charge, no obligation.

How disruptive is this to our current hiring?

Little to no disruption. Your recruiters keep hiring the whole time. We need one point person for decisions and timely access to your ATS and job board data. That's it.

What happens after the 30 days?

You own the ROI Performance Report and Executive Deck. Most clients continue with a monthly retainer (Report Only or Report + Live 45-Minute Performance Review Call) so fresh insights consistently drive your recruitment strategy.

How does the guarantee actually work?

If by day 30 we haven't delivered your ROI Performance Report, "cut", "keep", and "double-down" recommendations, and exec slide deck, we refund the implementation fee. We'll walk through exactly how that's measured on the ROI Audit call.

Who runs the implementation?

A senior operator who's held a senior position at one of the world's largest job platforms and has spent 3+ years working 1:1 with TA teams. They've seen every recruitment challenge you're likely to have.

Book your ROI Audit

Pick a time that works for you.

30 minutes. No pitch deck. Just an honest read on whether your data can produce a real ROI report. If it can't, you learn what's needed for us to work together.

We only accept a limited number of teams per month. Only 3 spots left in April.

One report away from monitoring and defending every dollar.

30 minutes, free, and an honest answer either way. Pick a time above.